Gail and Paul being American by birth, and having lived their until their late thirties like to continue the American Thanksgiving tradition which is always on the third Thursday of November. If you were reading the blog when we were in the Maritimes in Canada, we celebrated Thanksgiving with our friends Alan and Paige. You … More American Thanksgiving the Australian Way – 25th November 2018

Today was about reliving our time in Shay Gap, Western Australia. For Fraser it was 1984 to 1987 and for Di it was 1986 to 1987. Shay Gap was where Fras started his mining career as a Grade Controller and Di did a couple of months relief work in the Medical Centre. Prior to that … More Shay Gap Reunion – 24th November 2018

The decrepids didn’t get going until 11.00am but we then made up for the late start. We went down to Gail’s studio where she does her art work. It is this little oasis only about 5k from the centre of the city. There are four resident artists who do various types of art work. We … More Art Classes, Perth – 23rd November 2018

Natter fest until we broke the cycle to take Remy for a walk. Poor Remy has allergies which they are trying to find out what causes them. He scratched his way around the walk and seemed quite miserable at times. Gayle bathed him when we returned home with some special shampoo which made a huge … More Ocean Reef, Perth – 22nd November 2018

This morning Al and Jen got to bid us a farewell, for a while!! We will be back to haunt them in a couple of weeks. We are going north to a suburb called Ocean Reef to stay with some really old, old buddies of ours, Gayle and Paul. They hark back to our Sydney … More Change Over Today – 21st November 2018

Rest and Recovery day today along with catching up with friends. Al and Jen had to head off to work, the poor buggers whilst we got a bit of a sleep in. We used the day productively by catching up with all the washing and tidying up the house a bit. Brian (bird) has been … More Perth – 20th November 2018

Plan was for Fras, Di and Al to drive back to Perth whilst Jen caught the 9.10am flight as she had a class at 1.10pm. As they say, all good plans of mice and men go astray and it certainly did for Jen. Al dropped Jen at the airport and then we checked out of … More Back to Perth – 19th November 2018

Busy, busy day around Kal and close surrounds. First order of the day after a beautifully cooked breakfast courtesy of Jen and Al we headed to the look out point of the super pit. Originally there were many small underground gold operations spread out along the famous Golden Mile of Kalgoorlie and Boldre. Roughly 20-30 … More Back to Perth – 18th November 2018

Today was an adventure into the outback to see Potsie’s gold processing plant. We all headed out of Kal about 60k to Potsie’s lease at Mount Monger. Potsie’s dad got this lease area back in the 1970’s and have been working it since then but now processes the gold for other people. Potsie got Di and Jen right … More Kalgoorlie to Mount Monger and Back – 17th November 2018

Yesterday was spent catching up with some friends from our Shay Gap days in the mid 1980’s. It is so typical and kinda silly that when you meet up with people you haven’t seen for over 25 years, you say, “oh you haven’t changed a bit” which is a big fat lie. You know that … More Perth then to Kalgoorlie – 15th and 16th November 2018